Supporting Actress, the association named Sally Field for LINCOLN. Runners-up included Anne Hathaway for LES MISERABLES (2), Amy Adams for THE MASTER (3), Helen Hunt for THE SESSIONS (4) and Ann Dowd for COMPLIANCE (5).

Lincoln has, so far, been trailing Zero Dark Thirty and Argo more significantly than I had expected in terms of major love from critics’ groups. I don’t think it entirely needs this love, as I expect the Guilds and the Academy to go for it big time (like the HFPA), but it doesn’t want to get left behind – 0D30 and Argo are too strong for Lincoln’s hopes to be kept alive should that happen.

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I smell a conspiracy. Do you really think it’s a coincidence that the first critic’s group to award Lincoln is the one representing the very city in which John F. Kennedy was assassinated? I think not.